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Townhall: Bailed. Out?

Relevance: 100%      Posted on: April 24, 2016

A serious blow to Obamacare? Over at Townhall, the prospect of a major U.S. government program self-destroying in front of out eyes. What will we make of it? Click on over. Then come back here. For a few more assays: Obamacare Failures On the Rise by Michael Shannon | Friday,…

Townhall: Addicted to the Wrong Prescription

Relevance: 97%      Posted on: September 1, 2013

Addicts all? No, but as a "body politic" we sure seem addicted to government. It should come as no shock to realize that this addiction has hit the industry from which the metaphor arises. Take a look at Townhall.com this weekend. Regular readers may notice that the Common Sense column…

Best Obamacare Prescription

Relevance: 90%      Posted on: December 18, 2013

Is non-compliance the answer? I recently discussed how sheriffs in Colorado and elsewhere are refusing to cooperate with oppressive new laws, in their case farcical gun-control laws. Can we find similar inspiration in other fields? Yes. Consider the medical industry. Despite the Supreme Court decision okaying some of Obamacare’s key…

Townhall: ObamaCare, Dead Plan Walking

Relevance: 88%      Posted on: January 8, 2017

Just how deep in whose mess are we in? Click on over to Townhall for an answer. Then come back here. Melanie Hunter, CNS — Schumer: GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare ‘Will Make America Sick Again’ AM New York — Trump’s Tweets: ObamaCare Was a Lie, Schumer Is Democrats’ Head…

Townhall: Obama Can’t Avoid Fabled Ovoid Crack-up

Relevance: 87%      Posted on: November 17, 2013

The biggest story of the week is turning into the biggest story of the month, the year, perhaps the decade. The much-heralded, much-despised "Obamacare" reform has had a great fall. What are the chances for the king's henchmen to put it back, intact, on the wall? Not high, not at…

Mugged by Obamacare

Relevance: 84%      Posted on: September 4, 2013

Sometimes people rush to support the destruction of their freedom (and that of others), then become shocked to learn how destructive such destruction can be. Businessman and “left-leaning activist” Link Christensen, former advocate of Obamacare, once cheered this sweeping assault on what remains of our medical freedom because “it sounded…

Townhall: The Great American Overdose

Relevance: 81%      Posted on: June 25, 2017

Our politicians are addicts. Not on drugs, exactly (though that is probably true in some cases), but on . . . well, click over to Townhall.com for the full argument. It may be something you want to share with your friends. You know, like a needle pizza. This weekend’s column is an expansion…

Marketcare versus Obamacare

Relevance: 80%      Posted on: April 8, 2014

Hurray! Waiting for hours! Problems! Snags! As a sign-up deadline approached, Obamacare administrators heralded the long lines people endured to apply for a permitted insurance policy. The lines supposedly proved Obamacare’s invulnerable popularity. Had officials not been told about the new penalties for taxpayers who lack insurance? That millions have…

Losing with Obamacare

Relevance: 78%      Posted on: October 1, 2013

Democrats and their many shills in the major media decry Republican intransigence and “absolutism” on the “settled matter” (un)popularly known as Obamacare. Yesterday, rather than give an inch to the House Republicans they accuse of intransigence, Senate Democrats voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act, including their own special exemption…

Moolah for Media

Relevance: 75%      Posted on: April 13, 2011

Has Congress rescinded the Obamacare yet? No? Bad news if you favor free-market medicine. Nifty news if you’re a doddering corporate dinosaur of old media — like the Washington Post and CBS New and NBC News — with millions, or billions, in the kitty. And zero compunction about holding out…

Unions versus Obamacare

Relevance: 74%      Posted on: April 25, 2013

Former friends of Obamacare keep discovering that the law treats them as enemies. Three years after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Kinsey Robinson, president of United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International, says that many provisions “were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences . . .…

Ending Obamacare

Relevance: 74%      Posted on: December 5, 2013

Getting rid of Obamacare has proved not so easy. The GOP House majority, won in late 2010, voted dozens of times to get rid of the program, but without Senate support to pile on (much less override a presidential veto), they could vote to repeal every day of the year…

Townhall: The Unsurprising “Success” of Subsidy

Relevance: 73%      Posted on: February 16, 2014

Give people money, or services free of charge, and (shock of all shocks) they will do things with them ... and even go so far as to change their behavior to keep getting more and more freebies. Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s dosage of Econ 101 —…

Resistance Is Not Futile

Relevance: 73%      Posted on: October 11, 2013

Who says signing up for Obamacare is all snarls and snafus? Thirty-year-old law student Brian Mahoney already had a high-deductible, low-premium insurance plan. But the day the Obamacare exchanges went online, he decided to check it out. For him, unlike thousands of others, signing up was easy. Great. Except that…

The Apple of Their Own Eyes

Relevance: 72%      Posted on: October 9, 2013

“Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it,” President Obama recently told an audience. “I don’t remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down…

Video: Obamacare in One Lesson

Relevance: 72%      Posted on: November 16, 2013

This is a pretty good breakdown of what Obamacare is/was and why it was a bad idea from the start:

Tax the Poor!

Relevance: 70%      Posted on: February 21, 2014

There is an argument for taxing the poor. Net beneficiaries of taxation can think about government in a different way than net payers. They might begin to think like children, not like adult supporters of a shared enterprise in defense of the basic institutional framework that in turn supports civilization.…

Surprised by Obamacare

Relevance: 70%      Posted on: October 31, 2013

So, wait, Obamacare is not free? Pre-Obamacare, George Schwab paid $228 a month for health insurance. Now he must pay $1,208 a month for a comparable plan. “The president told the American people numerous times that ‘If you like your coverage, you can keep it.’ How can we keep it…

Legalize Cheap Health Care?

Relevance: 68%      Posted on: June 24, 2017

The ongoing ObamaCare Repeal fiasco, Dr. Rand Paul explaining: https://youtu.be/TPeafkU9Zgo

Obamacare Results Already In

Relevance: 67%      Posted on: February 13, 2014

A reader named Gert, commenting at National Review Online, repeats a notion heard often enough to become cliché. Gert suggests that to debate Obamacare is “terribly premature. We just don’t have the data to know how it’s working yet.” Give it a chance to play out a bit more. Meantime,…

Video: When Coolness Fails

Relevance: 67%      Posted on: December 28, 2013

Selling Obamacare turns out to be not as easy as its devisers thought. The folks at PJ Media have some thoughts: http://youtu.be/3K2XeYuAxIA

Demanding Demand

Relevance: 66%      Posted on: March 31, 2014

Midnight tonight marks another witching hour for Obamacare: the deadline for individuals to sign up for insurance on the federal and state exchanges. Well, sorta . . . kinda. The deadline was extended last week. The dominant feature of the misnamed Affordable Care Act's tedious rollout has been the incessant…

Townhall: Stupid Is As Stupid Says

Relevance: 66%      Posted on: December 14, 2014

What we learn when an insider blurts out the impolitic truth. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more reading, or discussion, below. Wikipedia: King v. Burwell Politico: “Will Jonathan Gruber Topple Obamacare?” by David Nather YouTube: “Lack of transparency is a huge advantage," starring Gruber himself

Same Ol’ Blame Game

Relevance: 65%      Posted on: November 13, 2013

On Fox’s The Five last night, the subject of whom to blame for the Obamacare debacle came up. Bob Beckel thought the Republicans should apologize to the Democrats: Republicans had messed up Obamacare. Greg Gutfeld was incredulous, and told Bob to shut up. Not good form, that. There’s no point…

Tough Luck, Chumps

Relevance: 65%      Posted on: February 16, 2017

Advertised as a big deal ahead of time, the debate didn’t get much play afterwards. Especially from the Left blogosphere. Why? Billed as about the “future of ObamaCare,” it was really about what should replace ObamaCare. The CNN debate pitted Sen. Ted Cruz, well-known Republican opponent of the Affordable Care…

Got Ads?

Relevance: 64%      Posted on: November 20, 2013

First the hush-hush secrecy; then the lies. Now something even . . . worse? President Barack Obama doesn’t think the American people can handle the truth. Neither do several progressive non-profit groups in Colorado that have produced a plethora of cringe-worthy ads promoting Obamacare. One print ad, “Let’s Get Physical,”…

The Race Card, Again

Relevance: 63%      Posted on: November 29, 2013

Are persons necessarily racist if (a) white and (b) opposed to expansion of the welfare state — that is, merely for opposing such expansion? In the New York Times, journalism professor Thomas Edsall, echoing a now-familiar charge, implies as though it were self-evident that many who oppose Obamacare-ized medicine do…

Rand Paul Promises a Quick End to (and Replacement of) ObamaCare

Relevance: 63%      Posted on: February 25, 2017

The replacement for ObamaCare that Rand Paul is pushing looks a lot better than his previous statements had led some of us* ... to fear: https://youtu.be/OjDfN-O0vZQ It is mainly a freeing up of the system. Mainly. It is government getting out of the way. Of course, it is packaged so…

Video: A Freer Market in Medicine?

Relevance: 62%      Posted on: August 29, 2015

John C. Goodman, of the Independent Institute, has been studying and writing about health care and government policy for a long time. Here he sketches a way out of the current impasse, which is not just an “ObamaCare” problem: https://youtu.be/P5OCzNvgUK0

Video: Obamacare in Oregon, with Guitar and Four Cellos

Relevance: 61%      Posted on: July 13, 2013

The organization setting up the "health care exchange" in Oregon is spending a lot of money on advertising, to help make Obamacare more palatable to skeptics in the Beaver State . . . or at least help proponents feel better about it. http://youtu.be/xVUJNEDpEkg Does this song do anything for you?…

What Gets Lost in Washington

Relevance: 61%      Posted on: January 21, 2011

The current battle over “health care reform” is a great example of why representative government frustrates. It’s not just that the vast majority of Americans who oppose the Democrats’ bill didn’t get their way. It’s that the proponents of socialized medicine (and that’s the real goal, here: The eventual complete…

Resistance Still Possible

Relevance: 61%      Posted on: July 9, 2012

According to a majority on the Supreme Court, Obamacare’s penalty for not buying medical insurance is constitutional because it’s a “tax,” not a “penalty.” Hmmm. All taxes may penalize, and penalties sure can be “taxing,” but this similarity doesn’t give us license to swap one for the other. Chief Justice…

The “Obamacare” Conspiracy

Relevance: 61%      Posted on: December 12, 2011

Some “unintended consequences” aren’t. The order of the market is an unintended consequence of market participation. By buying and selling, we’re just trying to get what we want. But we also send signals that help other folks accommodate our values and plans, which then allows markets to form some semblance…

Subsidy for Everybody!

Relevance: 59%      Posted on: January 9, 2015

According to Vice President Joe Biden, the debate is over. Health care, by which he means medical assistance, is a basic right — to be obtained through government, and made effective by the Affordable Care Act — not a “privilege.” By “right” he means  “something others are forced to provide,”…

A Fraudulent Pill to Swallow

Relevance: 59%      Posted on: August 8, 2012

If you’re like me, you often rub up against common opinion and find little sense in it — or, as I like to put it, popular opinion with the common sense bled out of it. On Monday I reported on an anti-Obamacare lawsuit against the federal government for mandating the…

The Hewitt-Romney Rationalization

Relevance: 59%      Posted on: June 6, 2011

Those who insist that RomneyCare isn’t as bad as ObamaCare need a reality check. Both impose new price controls; both impose new taxpayer-funded subsidies; both force people to buy health insurance; both massively expand government interference in our lives. Former Governor Mitt Romney seemed to acknowledge the similarities when he…

Unions of Opposites

Relevance: 59%      Posted on: August 26, 2013

Not everything in Dr. Obama’s garden is coming up roses. Even erstwhile — or perhaps masochistic — supporters of the thorny “Obamacare” legislation have sought exemptions from its costs and mandates, or complained about its “unexpected” destructive impact. The AFL-CIO, for example, laments that employers otherwise subject to Obamacare mandates…

As Stupid Does

Relevance: 58%      Posted on: November 19, 2014

“Stupid is as stupid does,” said the great American prophet, Forrest Gump. Meanwhile, Obamacare maestro and MIT professor, the illustrious Dr. Jonathan Gruber, has declared in not one but a multitude of videos that the American people are, well, “stupid.” You see, when the elites wielding political power lie to…

TrumpCare Trumped

Relevance: 58%      Posted on: March 27, 2017

It took awhile for the Obama Administration to accept the term “ObamaCare.” Nancy Pelosi was the initial driver of the massive scheme to permanently alter American medicine and insurance, and “PelosiCare” would have been a fit moniker for the wildly mis-named “Affordable Care Act.” But the administration put the whole…

No Waiting for the Lies

Relevance: 58%      Posted on: October 25, 2013

From the beginning, Democrats urged us to reserve judgment about their beloved “Affordable Care Act.” Wait, they said, until enacted . . . “to find out what’s in it.” Then they said: wait till we see how it works. Now, they tell us to wait some more, while they figure…

Ad Budget Slashed

Relevance: 58%      Posted on: September 7, 2017

Republican politicians, who had been running since 2010 on killing ObamaCare, did not. Not when they had a chance. Despite dominating Congress, they failed, because they opted for a goofy way to do it (the House’s AHCA plan being a terrible mess, probably worse than the monster it was trying…

A Compact Solution

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: September 19, 2011

“We shouldn’t have to leave our country to have a reasonable health care system,” says Eric O’Keefe, chair of the Health Care Compact Alliance. I agree, but what to do with Obamacare, at present secure from repeal? O’Keefe points out that Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution permits states…

Best Plan Is No Plan

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 9, 2017

“Republicans would create chaos in the health care system because they are stuck,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, “between a rock and a cliché.” Oh. Off by a word or two. But I don’t need to fix it. What needs to be fixed is the whole system. “Head clown”*…

Out of Our Misery

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 26, 2017

Obamacare may be on the way out. According to The Atlantic, “the powers of the incoming Health and Human Services secretary are broad enough to cripple the [Affordable Care Act] so it has to be replaced.” Which is significant since the new President has just “signed an executive order empowering…

Laboring for Unemployment

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 29, 2013

When you make it harder to hire people—as Obamacare does by imposing penalties on companies that fail to provide specified health insurance—you make it more unlikely that persons will be hired. Consider the case of Automation Systems Inc., reported at National Review Online. After the economy went into a nose…

Obamacare as Bad as Windows 8?

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: October 23, 2013

The spectacular failure of Healthcare.gov to sign people up for the much-promised easy-to-access “healthcare” plans, has now gone mainstream. So, how bad is it? Worse than Windows 8? Just as I know of no one, personally, who has bought a medical coverage package through the new Obamacare system, I also…

ObamaCare’s Casualties

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: July 31, 2017

We all know the truth: Partisan “warfare” yields the usual war casualty, truth itself. Now, because of the increasing weight of federal government presence in healthcare markets, partisan untruth incurs medical costs. Take the goofy Republican plan(s) to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare — pushed with so many half-truths and downright…

Countdown to Zero

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: October 7, 2013

The New York Times has a timeline of the progress of Obamacare. It’s okay as far as it goes. Which is not too far, since only the most recent dates seem readily accessible. And since the Times editors blindly favor the Obama-assault. But sure, labor leaders have both criticized and…

Big Government Blows It

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: October 8, 2013

The Obama Administration won’t say how many Americans have successfully navigated the online sign-up during last week’s grand opening of the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchanges . . . if anyone. To quell the media manhunt, the White House tweeted that Chad Henderson, a mild-mannered 21-year-old Georgia college student with…

Bailed — Before Bailout

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: April 25, 2016

Last Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare Group Incorporated (UNH) announced that it will drop coverage of plans under Obamacare in all but a few states by 2017. The market signaled a thumb’s up: UNH stock prices shot up over 2 percent. The company, described in the news, somewhat vaguely, as the country’s largest insurer, is…